Sewer Cleaner Salary in the United States

How much does a Sewer Cleaner make in the United States?

As of January 01, 2026, the average salary for a Sewer Cleaner in the United States is $36,574 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $18.

However, a Sewer Cleaner's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

  • Top Earners (90th percentile): $52,656
  • Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $29,665 to $44,992
  • Entry-Level (10th percentile): $23,374
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Sewer Cleaner Salaries by Percentile

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Wage
75th Percentile $44,992 $3,749 $865 $22
Average $36,574 $3,048 $703 $18
25th Percentile $29,665 $2,472 $570 $14
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Key Factors That Influence Sewer Cleaner Salaries

A Sewer Cleaner's salary isn't a fixed number. It's shaped by several important factors. Below, we'll explore how geographic location and company size can directly affect your earning potential.

Top Paying Cities for Sewer Cleaners

Salaries can also vary between different cities. Major metropolitan areas or cities with a high demand for technicians often offer more competitive pay. Here are a few examples of average annual salaries in different U.S. cities:

  • San Jose: $46,131
  • San Francisco: $45,677
  • Oakland: $44,664

What Skills Can Increase a Sewer Cleaner's Salary?

Demanded Skills for the Role:

  • Communication Skills (Mentioned in 8.11% Job Postings): Communication skills are your ability to share or understand information, ideas, and feelings successfully.
  • Aviation (Mentioned in 2.7% Job Postings): Aviation is the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships.
  • Continuous Improvement (Mentioned in 2.7% Job Postings): A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility. Some see CIPs as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management). W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organisational goals. The fact that it can be called a management process does not mean that it needs to be executed by 'management'; but rather merely that it makes decisions about the implementation of the delivery process and the design of the delivery process itself.
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Communication Skills 8.11%
Aviation 2.7%
Continuous Improvement 2.7%

Sewer Cleaner Salary: Hourly Rate, Weekly Pay, and Monthly Pay

Understanding how a Sewer Cleaner's annual salary breaks down can help with budgeting. Below, you can see the average hourly rate, weekly pay, and monthly pay for this role. Use the buttons to switch between different pay periods.

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$29,665
Average $36,574/year
$44,992
$2,472
Average $3,048/month
$3,749
$570
Average $703/week
$865
$14
Average $18/hour
$22
Annual Salary Monthly Pay Weekly Pay Hourly Wage
75th Percentile $44,992 $3,749 $865 $22
Average $36,574 $3,048 $703 $18
25th Percentile $29,665 $2,472 $570 $14

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